expected VS Magic Enum C++

On this topic Sy Brand is a guarantee, in fact he did the https://github.com/TartanLlama/expected and several presentation of the subject.

In the meantime, I may use the TartanLlama implementation (here) and plan around replacing it with the real deal in the near future.

Sy Brand's tl::expected

expected is my favourite little part of cpp23, I’m using it often in codebase with https://github.com/TartanLlama/expected 😁

outcome and/or expected

Eventually you'll be able to use std::expected in C++23!

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/expected

Don't throw exceptions, require the caller to handle errors and propagate them up the stack (everything returns an expected) if they cannot be handled. You are forced to model the error domains instead of just throwing an exception and assuming the caller knows to catch it and do something with it.

Java has checked exceptions, but, Kotlin decided to abandon them.

The nice codebases I have worked on stick to the Result type in Swift or Kotlin. And thus you are forced to 'translate' errors (exceptions?) as described in Alan Griffith's 'Exceptional Java'.

https://accu.org/journals/overload/10/48/griffiths_406/

"If a checked exception is thrown (to indicate an operation failure) by a method in one package it is not to be propagated by a calling method in a second package. Instead the exception is caught and "translated". Translation converts the exception into: an appropriate return status for the method, a checked exception appropriate to the calling package or an unchecked exception recognised by the system. (Translation to another exception type frequently involves "wrapping".)"

If you can't wait for C++23, there's a single header implementation here.

https://github.com/TartanLlama/expected

I'm not sure this is quite what you're asking for, but this library has been super helpful to me in the past : https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum

Also, a shoutout to Magic Enum: https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum

What does this have to offer over magic_enum?

But it's a hack, and I prefer not to use hacks in production, because of their significant limitations:

You can either write a to string(view) function for your enum or use https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum

Why reinvent the wheel? magic_enum

Also if you want to convert enum members to string representation I suggest you just use magic_enum instead, much smaller dependency.

Magic Enum provides that.